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Part of the "Green Careers" series. Introduces job opportunities in recycling, including collection, transportation, receiving and sorting, disassembly, handling hazardous materials, scheduling, operations, and plant management. Recycling provides opportunities for young people to start with a temporary or part-time job, then move up to supervisory and management responsibilities. Jobs profiled include the following: e-waste entrepreneur, plant manager, biofuel coordinator, and truck driver.
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A few years ago, the city of Seattle faced an overwhelming garbage crisis. City planners and engineers describe how they created a recycling program that has become a model for the nation. Shows from beginning to end how the recycling process gets done.
A recycling coordinator takes viewers through the recycling process for cans, plastics, and newspapers, emphasizing the useful products and hundreds of jobs that are created by recycling. The machinery and processes used at Material Recovery Facilities produce recycled materials for clothing, benches, chairs, cardboard, and paper products. Demonstrates composting for home and community gardens.
If everyone would just put more in the recycling bin instead of the trash can, the world would be a better place. Right? In this episode, host Joe Hanson discusses the current state of recycling and offers ways to enhance the current methods of recycling. Part of the "It's Okay to Be Smart" series.
Architect Maria Paz Gutierrez is a woman on a mission to end water scarcity. Together with environmental engineer Slav Hermanowicz and bioengineer Luke Lee, she is hoping to take the recycling of wastewater from sinks, baths, and laundry to a completely new level. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the multidisciplinary team is engineering solar panel technology that makes greywater reusable while creating thermal energy in the process. Part of the "Science Nation" series.
Join host Joel Greene as he explores how batteries can be recycled. The crew visits a battery recycling plant and helps sort the different types of batteries. Part of the Curiosity Quest Series.
In this episode, students will focus on the letter F and the number 15. They also learn how not to be wasteful by recycling. Part of the "Plaza Sésamo" series.
Recyclebank and Revolution Foods are two innovative companies that focus on rewarding people for taking ecological and healthy actions. These two companies are encouraging citizens to be actively engaged with good environmental and nutritional practices. The benefits created by these practices are considered "win-win-win". This means that consumers and government save money, build community, and also earn long-term health benefits.
In this episode, Joel Greene explores the Lighting Resources Facility in Texas, where they collect old light bulbs. They dump them all into an incredible machine that breaks them apart, safely collects the mercury, and cleans the remaining glass. Lastly, Joel follows the crushed light bulb remnants and watches the process of mixing the recycled light bulbs in with recycled glass to create gorgeous counter tops and flooring. Part of the Curiosity Quest Series.
Curiosity Quest visits an elementary school that is doing their part to protect the environment. The students have created a lunch tray recycling program, and host Joel Greene visits the cafeteria to see how the school recycles all their foam lunch trays. Part of the Curiosity Quest Series.
Old tires don’t belong in the landfill. They do not decompose easily, and they pollute the air if burned. In this episode, Joel and Curiosity Quest discover how tires are recycled to create new products. Part of the Curiosity Quest Series.
Did you know that cars can be recycled. In this episode, Joel witnesses the massive power of the car crusher and learns how the different parts of cars can be reused. Part of the Curiosity Quest Series.
Goodwill Industries takes donations of items that people don’t want anymore. Clothing is a majority of the items that Goodwill receives. In this episode, the Curiosity Quest crew learns about the environmental efforts of Goodwill to find a home for donated clothing. Part of the Curiosity Quest Series.
The Magic School Bus is an award winning animated children’s television series based on the book series of the same title by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen. It is notable for its use of celebrity talent and being both highly entertaining and educational. It's the last day of school before the winter holidays, and Wanda plans to see the Nutcracker ballet. But during a trip to a recycling plant, her toy soldier accidentally gets recycled. Devastated, Wanda wishes for a world without recycling. Ms. Frizzle activates the bus's un-recycler, taking the class on a song-filled field trip.
New attention is being paid to the benefits of not only recycling materials, but also on increasing efforts to reduce excessive consumption of natural resources. Communities are beginning to see the benefits of recycling, reducing, and reusing.
Paper is used for many things which can lead to excessive waste. New environmental programs focus on decreasing the consumption of usage as well as the benefits of recycling.
It is important to properly dispose of metals for the safety of people and the environment. Due to potential contamination problems, environmental programs focus on the recycling, reusing, and reducing of metals.
Suggests tips and ideas for conserving energy and water around the home. Touches on energy savers in the kitchen, for the water heater, and around windows. Covers recycling garbage and managing hazardous waste disposal.
How can individuals help protect the environment? This program explores a wide variety of practical, easy-to-accomplish tasks individuals can do to make Earth a healthier place. Pollution prevention, natural resource use, and recycling are some of the key ideas highlighted.
Our modern lifestyle has increased the amount of garbage we produce, and we are running out of space to store it. Fortunately much of the waste can be reused, and urban waste collectors hold a fundamental place in the recycling process.
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